报告人：Nalin Rastogi 博士

Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe（法国巴斯德研究所）

题目：Molecular methods, databases, and web tools to comprehend the phylogeographical and demographical specificities of tuberculosis epidemic worldwide in order to monitor, understand and control the disease

时间： 2014-04-14（星期一）10：30 - 11：30 pm

地点：生命公司大会议室

主持人：孙群教授

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报告人简介

Nalin Rastogi is a head of the Department at the Institute Pasteur, and director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Supranational Tuberculosis (TB) Reference Laboratory/TB & Mycobacteria Unit, at the Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe (French West Indies).

A senior TB consultant with the WHO, he is a renowned expert on various aspects of TB, namely taxonomy, diagnostics, drug resistance, molecular epidemiology and phylogeny, investigations on global TB transmission and geo-localization of emerging clones, etc. Author of more than 350 published papers (277 referenced in Medline on April 9th 2014).

Dr. Rastogi has been awarded many international grants and has supervised research of more than 130 scientists and trainees since 1986, He is presently coordinating an international consortium on one of the biggest international TB genotyping databases to study global TB transmission & geolocalization of emerging clones worldwide.

Nominated to the Faculty of 1000 (Medical Microbiology), he is an Editor with many journals.